The State Capture Project

The German public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt is investigating allegations against T-Systems, a subsidiary of the partly state-owned Deutsche Telekom, in connection with Gupta-linked State Capture allegations following a criminal complaint made by Shadow World Investigations. German articles can be found here, here, and here. An English translation of the Die Welt article can be found on our website here, and see English-language South African coverage here.

Paul Holden appears again at the Zondo Commission
He testified that a total of R57,064,461,144.82 was paid by the South African state on contracts that were tainted by State Capture.

Read Paul Holden’s summaries of his report in the Daily Maverick: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.

Hear a BBC summary of Zuma’s Arms Deal Trial and the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture from 31:40-36:45 here.

The Project

During the decade-long presidency of Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s fragile democracy was undermined and corrupted by a plethora of criminal actors. Foremost amongst them were the Gupta family, which used its influence and financial resources to capture major state companies and institutions, and to direct scarce public resources into their and others pockets. The State Capture Project aims to expose and elucidate evidence of this state capture through a program of detailed investigative research. We focus our attention on two of the most egregious cases of capture: the Estina Dairy Project and the capture of the state rail manufacturer, Transnet.

The results of this research will be published and disseminated widely, and can be found to the right of the page. Check back regularly for new publications and other content. The State Capture Project also aims to assist law enforcement initiatives in South Africa and around the world in bringing meaningful criminal charges against the perpetrators, facilitators and enablers of this exercise in grand corruption. To this end, Shadow World Investigations is making detailed submissions to the Zondo Commission on State Capture, which can be found to the right.